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The article presents an attempt by one of the most interesting modern thinkers, the Austrian scientist Gerhard Oberhammer, to substantiate the possibility of a transcendental experience of meeting with God and the philosophical-hermeneutic objectification of this experience. Based on the traditions of Kant's transcendental philosophy and its hermeneutical interpretation by Karl-Otto Apel, Oberhammer also draws on the productive intentions of Karl Jaspers' con­cept of the "ciphers of the transcendent", experience as a person's being captured by Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas' hypostase. The article deals with a heuristic interpretation of these concepts for Oberhammer's explanation of the possibility of a transcendent experience as an experience of an absolute meeting of man with God. According to the Austrian philosopher and Indologist, the place of transcendent experience is the inner world of the subject, which is characterized by two main properties: depth and openness. The latter allows us to hope for the possibility of meeting with the other, but again, not outside the subject, but inside it, realizing the hidden structures of the inner world, as a world correlated with what is outside it. That is, according to Gerhard Ober­hammer, the transcendent experience of the subject can be comprehended in its two interdependent moments related to the subject's situation, namely, the mo­ment of its self-explanation and the moment of its correlation. The Austrian philosopher represents the religious subject as being in a constant self-overcom­ing of its limited isolation and finding its true essence, which implicitly contains both its depth and its correlation with the other, as its ability to accept this other into itself. The article substantiates the idea that the Austrian scientist builds his concept of religious and philosophical hermeneutics with a firm belief in its pro­ductivity and the possibility of using it for the analysis of any religion, since he focuses on universal transformations and events that occur in the life of a be­liever, regardless of the religious tradition to which he belongs.

This article examines the concept of inclusivism by Paul Hacker on the basis of one of his last articles dedicated to the problem of correlation between concepts "inclusivism", "tolerance" and "intolerance". This concept approaches the prob­lem of relationship between religions by implying that only one religion com­prises the absolute truth while it remains achievable to some extent at least for some other religions. P. Hacker developed his own conception and used the ex­ample of Indian religions to show the relationship between the notions of "inclu­sivism" and "tolerance" and argued that inclusivism is a form of thinking charac­teristic for Indian culture. P. Hacker defends the idea that what is referred to as tolerance in Western studies relating to Indian culture is not exactly tolerance but a fundamentally different way of thinking. This conception has attracted the at­tention of many Indologists including Gerhard Oberhammer who thoroughly an­alyzed the notion of inclusivism in relation to religious texts of Hinduism. Ac­cording to G. Oberhammer, the theory of P. Hacker includes propositions that could be interpreted ambivalently and require additional explanation. This article summarizes one of Paul Hacker's latest works, analyzes Gerhard Oberhammer's perception of his conception, reveals the main critical theses which were pro­posed and summarizes Gerhard Oberhammer's own views on this conception.

The article concerns the work of Gerhard Oberhammer, one of the most famous German-speaking Indologists and philosophers of the 20thcentury. Besides the studies on the sacred texts of the religious traditions of Ancient India, Ober­hammer wrote a number of articles devoted to the consideration of more general philosophical and religious issues. On the basis of indological material, Oberham­mer develops a universal method (transcendental hermeneutics) of studying and analyzing both the religious experience of individuals and the religious traditions that appear and develop on its ground. This article discusses in detail some of the general philosophical presuppositions of the transcendental religious hermeneu­tics method formed by Oberhammer, analyzes the philosophical and theological con­text of Oberhammer's work, identifies sources of possible influence on the arising and development of Oberhammer's thought. In the course of the comparison, the au­thor highlights traits of similarities and differences between the philosophical views of Oberhammer and the philosophy and theology of Karl Rahner. The article contains a translated from German fragment of the Oberhammer's program article Versuch einer transzendentalen Hermeneutik religiöser Traditionen.

The public service is the main administrative tool that links government and society. The relationships between these elements and effective public administration depend on professional competencies of public officers and their approach to the activities. The new qualified public servants can enter on duty in terms of the development and implementation of qualification requirements system and effective selection models that include requirements for education, skills, knowledge, professional and personal strengths (competencies) focused on the goals and objectives of the government. In the context of Russian administrative reforms, new legislative instruments and amendments regulating such requirements were adopted. These reforms defined such core competencies as strategic thinking, sociability, planning, and multitasking for all categories of public employees. The study identifies the range of skills required for leadership positions and behavioral indicators demonstrating the specific nature of each competence. Besides, the author examines the methodological basis for the development of competency models and empirical methods for assessing the professional skills of public officers.

The author analyzes the approaches and methods that are most commonly used in sociological studies of ethnic stereotypes and allow one to reveal social values and attitudes of the respondents as well as the subjective assessments of the representatives of ethnic groups. They include Likert scale, Bogardus social distance scale, method of assigning characteristics by D. Katz and K. Braly, twenty statements test, incomplete sentences technique, and semantic differential developed by Ch. Osgood in the second half of the 20th century. The paper provides the case studies for the analyzed methods and techniques applied in modern ethnosociological research on ethnic stereotypes. The author concludes that such projective methods as incomplete sentences technique and semantic differential should be combined in order to make the study of features of interethnic perception more effective.